Interesting snippet in Dugout

the Barnsley FC member of staff-SD's words-who is "minding" Lazarus at his Hudd school is none other than the "independent" Footy mag editor-that's what it says!!

 

Not Mr Stokes is it?

It can't be...</p>

He's not employed by the club is he?</p>

Can you tell me verbatim what it says Paul please?</p>

 

indeed it is..............

I've paraphrased as best I can-the gist of it is there-I don't have the paper in front of me

 

So if that is true and you've read it correctly

It seems to intimate that Mark Stokes is a BFC club employee ? Is that a true reflection or is that not the case ?

 

The plot thickens to Nudger proportions nt

 

08:53:39

 

that is certainly the strong implication...........

and in a separate article the Chron makes some play about how the lead article last week was critical of BH's stance

 

Excellent LOL nt

 

Typed verbatim from the Chron

<font face="ClarionMT" size="1"><p align="left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In yesterday&rsquo;s press conference at Oakwell, Barnsley boss Simon Davey said that &lsquo;he had a member of staff&rsquo; at the Huddersfield-based</font></p><p align="left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">school that Reuben Noble-Lazarus attends, in order to try and &lsquo;manage&rsquo; the media scrum surrounding the Reds&rsquo; teenage sensation.</font></p><p align="left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">That staff member is pictured above with Barnsley Chronicle news reporter Kate Pickles. He wouldn&rsquo;t give his name, only that he was</font></p><p align="left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">from Barnsley FC.</font></p><p align="left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">He also stated that the Chron&rsquo;s news team and photographer had just five minutes with Reuben, because the lad then had to go for a</font></p><p align="left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">dentist&rsquo;s appointment.</font></p><p align="left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The man in question isn&rsquo;t Barnsley FC&rsquo;s Head of Media Rob Knowles. It is, in fact, Mark Stokes, the editor of a football &lsquo;newspaper&rsquo;,</font></p><p align="left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">based primarily at Oakwell, who last Friday carried a front page story hammering wantaway Brian Howard, the day before the player</font></p><p align="left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">was dropped for the match with Norwich.</font></p><p align="left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">When questioned by supporters recently if he was part of the Oakwell Club set-up, Stokes said no, his paper was entirely independent.</font></p><p align="left"><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Yet Davey has called him a member of staff. Curious, don&rsquo;t you think?</font></p></font>

 

Cheers.

I need to read what his paper said about Howard.</p>

Is this one of the 'inaccuracies' in The Chronicle that Stokes said his paper needed to correct ?</p>

Laughing my fcking arse off.
</p>

 

You're thinking of the cream mate

Unless it's a layer of truth I get on top of my full fat milk.

 

RE: Typed verbatim from the Chron

I may be wrong but didn't Stokes say he was a graphic designer? Why would you have a graphic designer manage press enquiries?

 

Sardines and Cantona

Just that